Why do marginalized users keep using that website at all?

Not every transaction, just the ones that open and close payment channels. This deletes data that would be needed to reconstruct an overwhelming majority of transactions.

(This is how Bitcoin’s lightning network works.)

If he doesn’t like hoarding, why doesn’t it just inflate?

Couldn’t they run a Chaumian digital cash server? It’s got top notch privacy, with the only downside of being a trusted central authority… which fiat currencies need anyways.

It’s because you’re taking a stance against cashless, which sounds paranoid and weird to most people.

Take a stand against VISA and PayPal. Then the bad guy isn’t “our” government, it’s corporations everyone already hates. And it references problems people already experience.

It’s much easier to explain how the situation is already bad than it is to argue how it “could become” bad.

What if it bounced through multiple peers between sender and recipient, encrypted on each hop like Tor? Then they’d need to actually break the encryption, or compromise every hop.

This is a false flag study to undermine public support for mathematics research!

Well the second half is true.

The validation is cheap, every node does that constantly. Do you mean proof-of-work mining?

If it’s p2p, then there are no insiders.

Protected‽ Then their exes can get it for child support!

How long does an asset need a history of positive returns before it’s no longer “gambling”? Hypothetically, would 15 years be enough?

I’ve heard cyber trucks got way cheaper too.

Imagine if you could get FREE MONEY by not using all your energy coinz!

Just chiming in as another guy who works in AI who agrees with this assessment.

But it’s a little bit worrisome that we all seem to think we’re in the 10%.

The whole situation is ducked IMO.

IDK about you but half of the time I’m at work I’m not actually working. I have like 4 hours of insane productivity, but don’t know which 4 hours those will be.

I didn’t know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

Was that anarchy?

We’ve had states for a lot longer than we’ve had copyright and patents.

As tempting as it is to move to Somalia Venezuela Antarctica, I’d rather improve my home.